A Michigan State University team conducted the first study assessing PFAS exposure in Parchment, a community affected by contamination from a landfill that received waste from a paper mill.
Courtney Carignan, lead investigator for the MSU team, says it’s important to look at the many different industries that used PFAS in production and how that might affect a community even years after the use is phased out.
“They have created this legacy contamination in the environment and because these PFAS are very persistent and also move very easily through soil, into groundwater and travel with the water cycle, it makes them very problematic.”…